Butter-box fastener.



No. 897,442.. 7 PATENTED SEPT. 1, 1908. G. E. WOODBURY.

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BUTTER-BOX FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 1, 1908.

Application filed November 26, 1907. Serial No. 403,975.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. W001)- BUnx, resident of the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Butter-Box Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide for a butter-box, fruit-crate, or like receptacle that is exposed to more or less rough usage at the hands of shippers and tradesmen, an improved fastening-device for the cover, in which several features with regard to simplicity and cheapness of construction and its readiness of application.

are combined with other features in such manner as to give the device several advantages over other fastening-devices heretofore used for the same purpose.

The device, in its main features of construction, relates to those fastenings of the kind comprising a bolt on one part of the box and a loop or sta le fixed on the other part into which it is fitted to slide, and so fasten the cover when it is closed.

The principal parts or features of my invention consist in a retaining means of novel construction having a flattened loop and a cylindrical shank, a recessed boltplate, and a slidable bolt contained wholly within the bolt-plate and in which it is readily movable to engage the loop. The boltplate is specially formed for setting it into the rim of the cover flush with the front of the same, and for confining the bolt in working position without other fastening means than the screws which secure the bolt-plate in place. The bolt is without projections on the front, so that it lies entirely within and is protected as well as confined in place by the bolt-plate.

The novel features of the hasp are a cylindrical shank of convenient length to be inserted and fixed in a bored cavity in the standing side or front of the box, and a flat tened loop on the end of the shank.

The accompanying drawing fully illustrates a fastening means of my invention, so inserted and fixed in place within the rim of the cover and the standing-front of the box; only those ortions of the wood immediately around tie parts of the fastening being shown in the drawing.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a front elevation of a boxfastening of my invention, fixed in place on the body and cover of the box. Fig. 2 is a top-view of Fig. 1, with the cover partly broken away to expose the parts of the fastening that are set into the wood beneath the top surface. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section on the line 90-00 Fig. 1.

The bolt plate a is of novel construction in being formed with a cavity of the required depth to let the bolt 6 lie within the frontface of the plate, and with a cross-bar d so placed at a point between the ends of the bolt-plate that its distance from either end is less than the length of the bolt, and that part will be confined in the cavity, and can not drop out or be removed after the boltplate is set in position. In the back of the plate a recess e extends perpendicularly across the bolt-containing cavity and is open at the lower side to admit the shank h of the retaining loop a from below. The cavity also is open at one end for inserting the bolt, and is closed at the opposite end. The bolt is thus retained in place without any special fastening means, when the bolt-plate is set into the wood and it cannot be removed, or drop out accidentally after it is placed in position. A screw f inserted through the back of the plate a near each end will hold that part securely in place, and holes for that purpose are provided in the plate.

The bolt is preferably formed of wood, and is made of somewhat greater thickness at one end than at the opposite end. That end is also fitted to the loop so that it will wedge or fit tightly between the sides of the loop when pressed forward; and shoulders g are formed on the bolt, by reducing the width of the middle portion as seen in Fig. 1, in order to the more readily move the bolt in the cavity.

The cylindrical shank h on the loop 0 is set into the standing-front of the box and fixed in place by boring a hole into the wood, and inserting a cross-pint through the shankfrom the outside, a hole being provided in the shank for that purpose. In this way the retaining loop as well as the bolt is confined in and inclosed by the wood, so that no part projects or is exposed beyond the surfaces of the body or the cover.

Having thus described my invention, I claim A fastening-means for the cover for a box comprising a bolt-plate having a bolt-conloop insertible in the late from below at the tainingcavity in the front, a bolt slidable recess and having a s ank for securing it in therein, a bar extending across the cavity at place.

a point between the ends, said cavity being GEORGE E. WOODBURY.

0 en at one end to admit the bolt, a recess in Witnesses:

1; 1e back of the said plate extending perpen- EDWARD E. OSBORN,

dicularly across the cavity, and a retaining WM. K. WHITE. 

